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WUCF TV, in partnership with the Children’s Cabinet of Orange County, hosted a Lunch & Learn screening for “The Bad Kids” on March 15. The event welcomed over 50 education, pre-service teachers and youth-service personnel for an exclusive preview of the film before it airs on PBS stations nationwide.

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“What a woman may do if only she dares, and dares to do greatly.” - Loreta Velazquez | Teach your class about the contributions of women who enlisted in the Civil War, and how factors such as race and gender shape our understanding of history.

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“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” is often credited with “putting a human face on slavery” and helping launch the Civil War. In video from American Experience: “The Abolitionists,” students learn about the impact of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s writings on the abolitionist movement.

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New data on high school graduation rates released recently by the U.S. Department of Education underscore the continued need for innovative, community-based solutions highlighted by American Graduate, a local/national public media initiative focused on improving high school graduation rates.

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How do innovators come up with ideas for viable products? In this lesson from NOVA Education, your students will learn mechanisms by which to filter their ideas and narrow their focus to select only the best, most viable potential innovations for further strategic development.

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What’s the best predictor of success in a person’s life, including success in education? When it comes to predicting the latter, psychologist and former educator Dr. Angela Lee Duckworth says we need to better understand students and learning from a motivational and psychological perspective.

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Responding to President Obama’s call in this year’s State of the Union Address to reinvent American high schools to allow more students to seize opportunities in today’s economy, public media’s American Graduate initiative will participate today in Washington, D.C., in the first-ever White House Summit on Next Generation High Schools.